Football News
At 2009 AFC Under-16 Championship Qualifiers, Abu Dhabi, UAE

India dw Kyrgyzstan 0-0

Indian boys still have a chance to reach knock out round but now they need to win their last 2 matches.
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Tennis News
At $50K Sacramento Challenger, CA, USA

Doubles
[QF] (4) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Treat Huey (PHI) l Alex Kuznetsov (USA)/ Todd Widom (USA) 67(3) 57
[QF] Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Kevin Kim (USA) l Lester Cook (USA)/ David Martin (USA) 36 36

So not a good day for our players in doubles.
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At $15K India F11 Futures, Pune

Semi Finals
(1) Daniel KING-TURNER (NZL) bt (4) Young-Jun KIM (KOR) 63 76(3)
(2) Alexander SATSCHKO (GER) bt (6) Rohan GAJJAR (IND) 64 36 63

After losing first set Rohan came back in the match strongly against experienced Satschko ... But in third set he lost concentration when Satschko used time wasting tactics like checking spot where ball fall ... That was more specific when Rohan had 2 break points in 5th game when Rohan was up 15-40 but before every point Satschko used this time wasting tactics and Rohan made couple of unforced errors on Satschko's second serve ... After match Rohan was upset with chair umpire who didn't give any warning to Satschko for this time wasting tactics.

In doubles Vishnu and Divij won title beating Purav and Raja, 75 63.
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At $10K India ITF Tournament, Noida

Semi Finals
(1) Poojashree VENKATESHA (IND) bt Prerna BHAMBRI (IND) 67(5) 63 63
Moe KAWATOKO (JPN) bt (4) Sanaa BHAMBRI (IND) 46 64 61

Poojashree reached another final in India but she needed to overcome tough challenge from Prerna who won first set against top-seed ... But Sanaa lost her match after winning first set against unseeded Japanese opponent.